Good morning! 4 easy TM miles, abs, and stretching at the gym this morning. That was the start of Hansons week two. So far so good! Back to reality at work today. I'm always grateful that I love my job, but it's still hard coming back from vacation every time.

Okay, DH needs some sage advice from all you sub 3ers and experienced runners. When he gets back from CO, he'll have 8 weeks until Lehigh. He's running the half. What sort of training should he do? He wants to get sub 1:40 (PR is currently 1:40:22). He's currently running 15-20 miles per week due to cycling training. Running will obviously be the main focus once he returns. All advice and suggestions are welcome!

RA: Thanks for the reminder! I'll have to get my spelling supplies ready. Please, please get that leg healthy!

Badger: Uh oh...the race between you and RD is on for the next level...let the fun begin!

More of the same this week. I've got another race on Saturday - this time a half marathon. Balls on the table time - I'll be going for my PR (and RAs !!), but really not sure my legs will cooperate. It is the same race I set my numerically exceptionally cool current PR time, but I also struggled in 1.29 there last year, so it'll definitely be some work. Part of me doesn't want to beat the time for that reason alone.

SRD today. Noodley arm torture day.

MDawg - you might get a better response from a dual sport person - but what stood out to me is '15-20 miles / week'. My initial thought is ramp up that mileage ! But then I don't know much about his history and what he was running previously when he set that PR. I'm sure there's some fitness cross over, but I'm also sure that nothing can fully replace getting the miles in. With that said - he shouldn't just jump in and start rapidly increasing the volume or he'll likely get hurt. I did a quick bit of hunting - this plan might be something to look at - starting 8 weeks out. The mileage seems to match his at that point, and he could bump it up a little as he goes if he feels good.

Morning Y'all. RWOL won't let me post w/o responding to a quote and with tiny type. Weird. So I am responding then deleting.

Back from my trip down South. There is market for a good dentist in Elizabethtown, KY. Nice baseball facility with a running trail around it. However, DS games were too late to run in the heat. So, as much as I would have liked to have run with the thoroughbred horses in Kentucky, I did not. Met a girl in the fitness center on Friday who is going out for XC in the fall and had a chat with her and her parents. She lives in a small Mississippi town so has to go a long way for decent shoes. They ran in a local race prior to a wedding on Saturday and my new protege won her age group! Her excitement was contagious!

On a sad note, having had to spend time socializing with the baseball parents, it appears a few are truly alcoholics. While I was with them a few must have had 20 beers apiece on Friday night. I went to bed about midnight and they continued partying to 3:30 in the morning! Then started up again the next day at the ball park (bad form, IMO, to drink at kid's activities) and then continued to drink back at the hotel on Saturday night. One mom was slurring her words in front of her child. I feel badly for the kids.

So, I am now a week behind in training so it truly will be a 16 week plan for Chicago.

Badger: Congrats on greyhound. Better late than never! My toe has never healed and is putting a lot of pressure on the plantar plate, making it really painful to run so be careful. Self diagnosis is arthritis in my toe. I hate being old.

Mdawg and Ebunny: Bought some of y'alls peaches at a farm stand. Those wonderful bites of sweetness were sublime. I should have bought more, but wasn't sure how they would travel. My friend bought GA tomatoes, too. We would have bought out the stand if we didn't have to drive so far home. Everything was $3 and the guys were so kind. Here, those same peaches would have been $6 or $7 at the farmstand.

Mdawg: DH needs to talk to our idol, Mrs RA! I would say he has an incredible cardio base already so it should not be hard to steadily up the mileage,

RA: Have you been to Stonehenge? I did channel my inner druid in Kentucky amongst the trees in the hills

RD: Loved your mountain report from the other day

Taylormade: Could you please put a baseball field in your field so I won't have to drive to Kentucky again. Off to Rockford for a tourney soon so you could make a fortune from the suburban kids wanting to play in a closer Field of Dreams

mdawg - Depending on your DH's long run today, you could tweak the Higdon plan to get some over distance. For LR w/ fast finish on 2 of the following: 10, 12, 12, 14, 14, 12, 10, w8 = HM. Fast finish = pick up in last 2 miles to finish at or close to HM pace. Probably want to initially alternate tempo runs with intervals. Then do both in weeks say 5 to 6. Try for a midweek 8 miler with 4 miles at HM pace then stretch that to 5 miles the next time. Add some strides (6-8 * 100m) after 1 easy run per week and do some 4-6 * 200 after the 6-8 * 400s on 2 occasions

Increased mileage last week, 48 miles, so that means 48 again this week with some more speed work added in as well. Heat is becoming a more annoying factor, my 12 mile long run Saturday got a late start and thus was a sloppy mess of a run. The thought of getting up earlier does not appeal to me, but niether does running in the equivelent of a wet swimsuit. Starting to play around with different GU flavors, so far Island Nectors is the leader.

Badger-so shocking. I expected you to run 110 miles this past week. Slacker

Mdawg-not nearly a sub 3er, but I would suggest getting up to 40 miles or more, gradually and if feasible with his cycling. Adding in a speed and tempo session and a long run. I like to do long runs up to 15 miles for a half, but I think 13 would work for him if he hasn’t gotten up there in awhile.

RD-fun, I am running a half marathon too this weekend

Maps-I stopped over in Elizabethtown last year during my spring break on the way back from Disney World. Cute little town. I wandered around it in the early morning running and think I happened upon that same place where DS was playing baseball. That is really sad about those parents, especially drinking at their kid’s games. Not setting a good example at all

Easy weekend of running for me since I am doing a bit of a taper for my half marathon on Sunday. Looking forward t seeing where my fitness is at. Hoping for a 1:40 or under. Went to a wedding last night. No crazy shenanigans happened, but DBF and I did learn to tango, well sorta. He kept stepping on my feet a lot.

Rolling back in on a Monday, it's tough. My wedding date was the summer solstice many years ago, but that didn't work out so well. There must have been some deep wiccan reason why that happened.

I did not have a fitness/diet/health oriented weekend. But it's always a good time to get back on track.

Today is my first day of my Yasso training plan, 5 miles easy. The whole first week is just 35 miles, no real speedwork. I'll extend the weekend 10 LR up to 15 LR at least, I'm not going to drop down that much just because a training plan tells me to. So I'll do 40 miles for my opening week.

Mdawg - Good work on your opening week! 17 more to go. It's funny how easy it all starts out, and how difficult it eventually gets.

Maps - sad to hear about the drinking. I agree that it's saddest for the kids. That is a little bit beyond "just having fun" I too have those aches that just don't want to quit, my big toe is one of them :/

Badger - congrats on the 46. How long did you rest after the 100 miler? Was it similar to a post marathon rest?

bmmac27 - haha, I had the same thought on PR's, It's just chasing after another time, it never ends!

Busy weekend here. We went to a steak fry on friday night with a group of running friends and a house warming party on saturday.

Maps sad about the drinking. I like to have a couple but adults should know where to draw the line

taylorma1 is that the Womens Half you are doing. DD1 who is running Chicago this fall is running that.

I got 58 in last week. I upped the sunday LR to get the miles up. Hoping the body holds up with the miles and the intensity. Considering doing a 15K this weekend but there is race day sign up so I have time to decide. Just thinking a flat tempo run during a race might be easier to hang onto what little speed and endurance I have then during a regular run.

RA- hope you had a nice 6 miler. You always provide such good advice to everyone here. It's appreciated.

RD- good luck on your half. I have a feeling it will be a pr. Nothing is standing in your way these days.

mdawg/ebunny- I might be planning a trip later this fall or winter to Alpharetta GA tfriends some friends that used to live in Chicago. Would love to tie a race into that trip.

maps- I agree with the drinking. I get a headache just thinkand about it. I think it n becomes so normal for the kids. That is what they are used too.

rc- when is the Wedding again?

Taylorma- I am running the womens half too on Sunday. Looks like it might be warm. What does your mileage look like for the week?

badger- did you feel completely beat up the days following or is your body so used to this?

maureen- have you trained with the yasso Orlando before? I am thinking of switching things up this time around.

bmmac- I have to run at 5am, but I think I would still be out that early if I didn't have to in the summer. It takes so much more of a effort in the heat.

taylormade- nice weekly mileage.

i had two pretty awful runs this weekend, I don't remember feeling that crappy two days in a row. Ran 6 this am, and felt much better. Going to scale back this week for my half. hopefully that will help the sluggish feeling.

Nice running everyone. Anxious to hear what everyone is running on a daily basis based on the various training schedules.

Ran 10 miles at General Aerobic HR late this morning. Due to the heat, my HR ended up near MP HR for the last few miles, while my pace remained steady. The heat always does it to me. The only good thing is my weight keeps dropping in this weather. I've got 4 recovery planned for Tuesday and then 8 (4@tempo) on Wednesday.

mfam4 - I'm working out the best training plan for me. I'd been running halves and fulls for a couple of years, no formal training but doing 40 - 45 miles per week, tossing in some tempos and hill repeats. Very relaxed. Times were pretty good.

Then before Boston this past April I completed a formal rather aggressive (for me) 18/70 plan. It included 3 70 mile weeks, 3 60 mile weeks, 5 of the 50 mile weeks, and speed work. 7 days of running per week. So the accumulated affect hit hard in February. I was really mentally and physically stretched. I am glad I completed it so thoroughly, but I really didn't like running for a while there, in a bad way.

So I looked around at a few plans and found Yasso at the back of his book. This plan hits a 60 mile week only once, then a bunch of 50 something miles and 40 something miles. More speedwork in this plan than my last plan. I'm hoping not to hit that same harsh wall that I hit in the latter part of my last training cycle.

You all have been busy! I'm still trying to comprehend all that happened here with the group over the weekend.

We had a busy family weekend between DD2's "official" 4th birthday and Father's day. I did manage to squeeze in a workout yesterday: 2000 yards swimming, followed by 30 minutes on the stationary bike and 2.5 miles on the TM. Hit cycle class this AM followed by another 2.5 on the TM.

rd - that was an amazing race! Congrats!

ra - yes, that is still a great 10K time. Glad to hear the quad held up. Hopefully it is well on the way on the mend. And congrats to DW! Two AG wins two weeks in a row!

ebunny - congrats on your AG win! I guess 50 is the new 40, lol.

mini - 0 miles? With 14 miles for me, I think this may be the first time I ever ran more in a week than you did.

badger - congrats Greyhound!

mdawg - welcome home! I'm certainly not one of the sub-3 hour people, but I would urge DH to build running mileage with caution. He probably has the aerobic capacity and muscle endurance to run many more miles, but the rest of his body may not be ready to take all the additional pounding from running. That is a classic issue with multi-sport athletes.

maps - that is truly sad about the other parents. That baseball league sounds like it has a bunch of losers all around. The maps family deserves better.

I went into the office for a change today and found this posted on the door:

Maps: so sorry to hear those folks ruined the baseball. We have an entire generation of binge drinkers who are really going to leave some messed up kids behind.

12x400 with 400 recoveries for me tonight as Rx by Hansons. 9 miles total. Felt much better than last week - took about 80% as much effort to hit my target times.

On a side note, had my first run in with a dog for the season. Was running at a north side track at about 9:30 PM when an older couple showed up with three bully breeds. Promptly took up all the lanes - no biggy, I just ran on the grass when I passed them. About the third time I ran by the man inexplicably let one of the dog's recoil leashes all the way out. Fido promptly chased after me, ran in front of me, and went after my legs. I have a minor scrape from hurdling the thing but just about lost my cool.

Good morning! 7 TM miles including 8x600s, 400 recoveries, 1 mile w/u, and 1 mile c/d. Second Hansons speed workout done. Feeling good so far. I don't think it will last, but I'm being optimistic. Eating well and getting enough sleep sure is helping. Of course, the Atlanta humidity isn't where it normally is either. That's what's really helping. I am NOT optimistic about that continuing. It will be a sauna very shortly, I'm sure. However, like I told Badger, I will take my summers over your winters any day!

Thanks for all the responses on my DH HM question. To answer the cycling question...yes, he will be running more and cycling less when he returns from CO so upping mileage won't be an issue. He wants to run 4 days a week, but I think he'll need to run 5.

ChicagoMD: I loathe irresponsible pet owners. Glad you escaped with minor issues. Your Hansons workout sounds eerily like mine last week. Are you doing the beginner's plan from the book?

jmh: Priceless!

mfam: What month are you thinking of coming down? There are lots of races here once fall rolls around.

Maps: Those parents are idiots. We will be paying (literally and figuratively) for this down the road. I looked up plane flights to the CA Diva HM. It's not cheap from ATL. Go figure since it's all the way across the country.

me: 9 with strides. I ran a hilly route and tried to hit the hills a little harder and then added the strides at the end. Happy with the run. Now just need to be able to keep adding the miles with a little bit a faster stuff.

8 easy @ 8.25 pace for me before work. That seems to be my go-to pace now for 4 out of the 6 days I run. Always around 8.30 pace. I used to struggle to run like that, but now it feels harder to go faster.

And my PR attempt at the half this weekend has suddenly become a trail race... just got this from the RD yesterday:

"Be prepared in the first ¼ mile of the half marathon……there are a couple small creek crossings you will have to jump over. They are no wider than 3-ft so a small ballerina leap and you are covered."

I always knew trail runners were ballerinas. Right Badger ?

Maps - don't be hating on us lushes...

although in reality - I could never drink that much anymore. Stupid running and the weight loss.... sorry they messed up the experience.

Taylor-RW - might be cultural (me being a limey) - but what's a 'steak fry' ? Do you fry steaks ?

Taylor-Ma - this is too confusing for my simple mind ! 2 Taylors... Good luck with that half this weekend. Hope you nail your sub 1.40.

mfam - could it be the heat ? runs seem to suck a lot more when it's hot. smart to listen to your body though - could just be a bit over worked.

JMH - watch out for those 5K marathoners... it's funny how many people don't know what a marathon is. Although in reality I suppose, why should they. We're the freaks...

mdawg - nice on the workout. And I'm sure it *WILL* last !!! I had similar good feelings after all of those types of sessions last cycle. It's what really helped build the confidence, and strength.

Hard2Handle-yeah, running in the heat is incredibly tough. Not looking forward to it being hot and humid around here

Maureen-I was thinking of doing the 70 plan, but I just thought that was too tough, especially with summer running. Might try it in a few years, but right now I like running in the 50s and maybe get into the 60s later on in the cycle

Jm-lol wow. I just can’t comprehend that.

MD-that’s terrible about the dog chasing you. Glad you only got a few scratches and nothing worse

Mdawg-nice job on the speedwork

Taylormade-I think doing both strides and hills will definitely help with speed. At least that is what I am telling myself since I have added both those into my training

RC-yeah I plan on running really easy tomorrow. I only did 4x800 today with 6 miles total, so one less mile than I planned. Will only do some easy strides on Thursday, so not much speedwork in the mix for this week

Got in a nice workout this morning. 4x800M. 3:18, 3:21, 3:10, 3:22. #2 and #4 were into a strong wind. No idea where #3 came from but I was happy with it. Looking forward to an easy day tomorrow. I have a sore tendon on the inside of my ankle. Luckily I know anatomy pretty well and know it’s my posterior tibialis muscle, which is under my calf muscles. So I will make sure to stretch them and ice a bit as well to hopefully get rid of the tenderness by this weekend

ChicagoMD: I loathe irresponsible pet owners. Glad you escaped with minor issues. Your Hansons workout sounds eerily like mine last week. Are you doing the beginner's plan from the book?

I'm doing the advanced plan, against my better judgement, haha. I liked the balance of mileage throughout the training cycle a little more as I was already up in the 30s around the time I started training last week. It will be my first marathon so I'm excited/nervous to try Hansons - but I like the results I've seen from it on these forums. Best of luck with your training, looking forward to hearing from you through the training cycle!

Got out today at lunch for a short brick, 9 miles on the bike looping around the neighborhood, and then a 3 mile run. That's another bump in distance for me. I hope to get in 2-3 3 milers this week. The run was on concrete and a little faster than it should have been (9:11 average, I would have liked it closer to 10:00), so the PF may be a bit angry with me later today.

DW just got a fancy blender for making smoothies. I had one after my workout with spinach, cucumber, lime, parsely, apple, ginger, and a few other things I can't remember. Actually tasted pretty good. Our fridge is PACKED with all kinds of fresh veggies and fruits for smoothies. We'll see how long this kick lasts.

CRMD - it sounds like you had a lot more restraint than I would have had with those dog owners. I gotta believe that dogs are not allowed on the track. Glad to hear you are OK.

mdawg - nice workout! You are killing it!

taylormade - 9 with strides and pushing it on the hills. That sounds like a tough workout!

rc - if 5K is a marathon, wouldn't 10K be an ultra? lol

rd - first there were mud runs, and then color runs. Now they have ballerina runs?!?! Too funny!

Back from a slow 3.5 miles on little sleep. My allergies were bad yesterday, but DS1 were worse. He started having chest pains so took him to the doctor who prescribed some meds so never got in a run. The meds didn't help so was up all night with him and back at the doctor this morning. Luckily, it was not bad enough to go to the ER, though we debated at 2 am. New stronger meds should hopefully do the trick, but take a few days to be fully effective. Luckily, his heart is fine and the pain was from the asthma attack. He's never had one before so lots of anxiety, which didn't help. He also had the Young Hearts for Life screening through his high school in April, which if you have kids, I'd highly recommended getting them screened in junior high or high school.

On a happier baseball note, one of the boys on DS2's team has a disabled twin due to a stroke prior to birth (not that that is happy, but Jack is a great, happy boy). Jack plays on a special team and the mom is asking if they can play against DS2 team, though DS team would not bat. Should be a great experience for all the kids and I hope the parents leave their tobacco and beer coolers at home!!!!

jmhubba: Maybe RD will let you borrow his Sub 3 singlet for the 5K Marathon. You probably could get away with 7 GUs vs his 8!

ChicagoRunningMD: Glad you are ok. Having been bitten while running, all dogs scare me, which isn't a good thing as I'm sure they can sense my deep fear.

RD: The baseball lushes are large, i.e. fat. However, sadly, it was the 5 foot tall (and about that wide) mom who outdrank all the beefy dads (most of whom are 6'2 and bigger and sturdy). Luckily, there are a few fit and normal parents who I can hang out with at the next tourney.

Maureen: I need to take a look at that plan, though it will be too much for me in my current state of sluggishness. Thanks for the help with the posting, though I think RD and badger did put hexes on each other in their quest for greyhound status.

Ebunny & Mdawg: I would live in Georgia, humidity and all, just for those awesome peaches. I wish I would have bought more, but were afraid they would quickly spoil. Yum, yum, yum.

Mdawg: Bummer about the airfare. I plan to fly standby so have a few more options of Ontario or Palm Springs, But isn't getting to meet Maureen and I worth sacrificing your retirement money?!?

Mini: Way to stay strong and not run! Can't wait to see how fast you run this fall!

Taylorma: Nice work on the 800s and way to be attuned to your body!

RC: Makes no difference to me about dailies/weeklies, though I admit I am falling behind a bit in my shoutouts, but so far it has been easier to scroll back, but I could just as easily look at the previous days posts, too.

H2H: Good job on the 10! Hope you found today less humid!

In the past, there have been threads that pop up in late September about people banditing and jumping in and running with friends at Chicago, ie. they want to run in with dad, kids, etc. At NYC, which is way too crowded, IMO, spotters stand and body shove these people out of the way as they try to enter the Park at Central Park South. Questioon: in light of Boston, do you think Chicago will do something similar? It seems Chicago has turned the other way with people hopping in and out of the race and I wonder if they will be more proactive this year.

RD - I'd like to hit 70 at some point. As of now I don't even have any races planned but we're tentatively planning on the Rock'n'Roll Half in July. I might be able to grind out a 1:28:xx.

MAPS - So I finally found somebody who tops your PoloRunner at the gym (the guy who runs in polo shirts). It's JeanRunner! I saw a guy running in jeans. And not just running to catch the bus or something -- actually going for a jog in jeans LOL.

Afternoon all, busy Tuesday. I am doing summer school and we are enrolling now. I never actually have downtime, I'm just always busy. That's why I need the running, it's my stress reliever.

First day of the plan was yesterday, easy 5 miler so NP. Today it's 4 with hills, Wed easy 5, then Thurs it's 6 with 4 at MP. It does seem that this plan has more speedwork and less mileage than my last one. That was a deliberate choice on my part, I think I need to tweak my fast twitch muscles.

Runchicago - I just checked the plan. He has speedwork every week after week 5, not counting the MP work which is present every single week of the plan. Two of the speedwork sessions are Yasso 800's, you do 10 one week and 8 another week, then 12 x 400 at Yassoo pace in another session. 1 of the speed sessions is 3 x 1 mile repeats, 1 is hill repeats, and 1 is a ladder, 1/2, 3/4 1, 3/4 1/2 with recovery jog between. I just realized there's no tempo runs though. We do have one 5K race scheduled, that's like a tempo run to me.

jmhubba - that sounds like an interesting way to train, mini tri's. I like the transition feeling going from one to the next.

Chicago - are you in week 2 of Hanson's? 9 miles with speedwork already? Maybe my plan is a little on the easy side How many rest days per week?

Mdawg - I'll probably get it right eventually, but are you doing a formal training plan or your own? I have a pretty smooth opening few weeks it seems.

TaylorRW - that is a good workout, 9 mi hilly with strides. Must have felt good to finish.

Taylor1 - I probably jumped ahead too quickly on that last 18/70 plan. Now I'm pulling back quite a bit. But it's all training, so it's all good stuff.

Map - sorry to hear about your 2 AM debate. Nothing like a middle of the night decision, always more stressful. Good to complete some mile after all that.

Maureen: I'm doing the Hansons beginner plan from the Hansons Marathon Method book. It peaks at 57 miles. I'd like a higher mileage plan in the future, but I'm just not there physically yet. I'm trying to ensure I make it through this one unscathed.

Maps: I haven't decided on CA so you may yet see me out there. We've got some travel plans up in the air still (AZ which I mentioned last week being one of them). Good call on not getting the extra peaches. They would've been mush when you got home if they were nice and ripe.

I seem to always miss Mondays here because if I don't receive an email that one of you guys have posted, it often slips my mind. Thanks MAPS for coming on saying to scoot over to the new weekly. No idea why I can't remember this!

Sunday I took an unscheduled rest day- honestly just forgot to run with it being Father's Day and having major productions in the kitchen for breakfast! I remembered mid-afternoon while at the pool. Kind of funny. Yesterday I ran 5 miles on the TM and then taught Step. Today was a no-run day, with teaching two classes, weights and cardio.

Geez, so many of your low mileage weeks are my high mileage ones. I've been averaging 25-30 miles for the past several weeks.

Mdawg- I need to take a look at your Hanson program. I made it through the Pfitz book, but not the Hanson one yet. Topping out at one week in the 60s would be a big step for me. My last two marathon cycles each only had two weeks in the low 50s as my high.

MAPS- yes, you can't beat our peaches. My dad had a lovely apple orchard with about 500 trees, and several peach trees. I miss his apples and peaches! Crazy about the drunk parents at the game. Sounds like it's time for a clean break from this organization!

JMH- The sign cracked me up with the 5k marathon! You will set a new world marathon record!!

Chicago MD- I get annoyed with the dog owners that are clueless, or worse don't even care. Glad you were ok.

Maureen- I'm eager to look into Yasso's plans. No way can I get into regular 60-70 mileage weeks with my group fitness class load, but maybe Yasso has something doable for me.

RC- Love that you were practicing for the wedding! Don't let yourself stress too much about that dance though- just have fun with it!

Chicago - are you in week 2 of Hanson's? 9 miles with speedwork already? Maybe my plan is a little on the easy side How many rest days per week?

Hey Maureen! Yeah, it's the second week of the Advanced plan. I really like the Beginning plan as well - it probably is the better fit for me, actually, but I just finished a nice 10K training cycle that more closely resembled the beginning of the Advanced plan than the Beginning plan. Figured I didn't need the first 4 weeks of base that they have in the Beginning plan so I went ahead and switched to the Advanced plan. This is my first marathon, though, so I'm not without anxiety about going straight to the Advanced schedule.

The Advanced schedule is like two pages after the Beginning schedule in the Hansons book. It has one rest day per week, which is Tuesday for my schedule as I shifted all the runs by one day so that I could do the long runs on Saturdays with my training group.

Day of rest for me today - am currently on call at the hospital until later tonight (long day) so it was a well timed rest day. Just walked around outside, though, and you all have some great running weather tonight!

Speed work tonight, eased into it last week but kicked it up and went at prescribed pace tonight 6 miles, of which 4.5 were intervals of 4:00min @ 7:00/mi (actually this was 10 seconds fast cause I forgot my book with my paces in it at home) followed by 3:00min @ 8:30-8:40. Felt really good, as odd as that is to say about a speed workout...

RD - I'd like to hit 70 at some point. As of now I don't even have any races planned but we're tentatively planning on the Rock'n'Roll Half in July. I might be able to grind out a 1:28:xx.

MAPS - So I finally found somebody who tops your PoloRunner at the gym (the guy who runs in polo shirts). It's JeanRunner! I saw a guy running in jeans. And not just running to catch the bus or something -- actually going for a jog in jeans LOL.

Maps: so sorry to hear those folks ruined the baseball. We have an entire generation of binge drinkers who are really going to leave some messed up kids behind.

12x400 with 400 recoveries for me tonight as Rx by Hansons. 9 miles total. Felt much better than last week - took about 80% as much effort to hit my target times.

On a side note, had my first run in with a dog for the season. Was running at a north side track at about 9:30 PM when an older couple showed up with three bully breeds. Promptly took up all the lanes - no biggy, I just ran on the grass when I passed them. About the third time I ran by the man inexplicably let one of the dog's recoil leashes all the way out. Fido promptly chased after me, ran in front of me, and went after my legs. I have a minor scrape from hurdling the thing but just about lost my cool.

Have a great week everyone!

Yeah, I have had many run in's with dogs and dog owners. Dogs aren't stupid but their owners often are. I'm the type "A" that will call an owner stupid and call the cops on them. Some people have no business having pets.

Yeah, I have had many run in's with dogs and dog owners. Dogs aren't stupid but their owners often are. I'm the type "A" that will call an owner stupid and call the cops on them. Some people have no business having pets.

Agreed...I was going back and forth about whether I should of been aggressive with the dog and/or owners, especially since they were so obnoxious from the start by taking up the entire track and THEN essentially letting their dogs run free to chase me. I run at that track often and will probably be more firm with them next time.